28 thoughts on “C-19 Chat Post – September 6 2021”
Joshua. Any ideas as to why so many Covid cases on the Red Sox? I don’t recall hearing this from the other MLB team nor from our Revolution MLS. Even the Patriots preseason was nothing like this. The Red Sox should be well entrenched in clinching a postseason berth but instead are running on fumes. They are most fortunate that Oakland hasn’t taken full advantage for that last WC spot.
I would be curious as to the Red Sox team vaccination rate, and where they stand up against the rest of MLB. How did they let the virus get out of control?
I also find it interesting in Tom Brady’s recent comments regarding Covid-19 and the upcoming NFL season.
Frankly I wish professional sports had vaccination mandates. No vaccine, no play (or pay)for the season. Same for college sports. Oh well.
Same o the red sox. Obviously, they did it all wrong..
I continue to be sickened by this country’s response to covid. I am very disappointed in Biden’s approach, although still better than trumps.
I am extremely disgusted with the over all citizen’s response Far too many behave like this is over In short, they ain’t seem nothing yet!
I can’t figure out why people….vaccinated or not….think this is over.
JPD, I am wishing the very best for your daughter as school begins. The same also for Tom and Captain and all teachers.
Thank you Vicki. She was exposed so many times last year, but she taught with an N95 mask and a shield. She didn’t get it and that is the only reason why.
There is a mask mandate this year, but students will eat lunch in the cafeteria, MASKLESS! So there ya go! DUMB!
Last year students ate outside or in the class room socially distanced. Not so this year.
We are worried. Our daughter has some underlying issues.
Hope your daughter gets a booster JPD!
I hope so also. I can’t recall whether teachers were in the early phase of vaccines. If so, they must be coming up on the eight month time period
She is in my thoughts. All are. It amazes me that with a far higher number of children this year and a far more contagious variant that we have relaxed or eliminated so many steps for mitigation in schools.
We are a ship of fools.
Folks with a brain and who are not in denial, understand the seriousness of this. Others, I am afraid do not.
I have been hearing over the media for unvaccinated folks to STAY HOME this Labor Day weekend. There is concern about a huge surge coming, as in holidays past.
I’d suggest close to the same for vaccinated. At this point the cavalier approach of some….not all …is as dangerous.
For the Red Sox to have this bad an outbreak at this stage in the pandemic is problematic. I don’t know the vaccination status of players, but recall reading that the Sox have one of the lower vaccination rates among baseball teams.
When I see the absolutely packed stands filled with college students watching football games, I worry less about them but a lot about their teachers, the janitorial staff, the food folks, campus security, students’ parents and grandparents, etc … The South has already seen hundreds of Covid-19 deaths among teachers and staff in public and private schools during this wave. This trend will continue at the colleges. There’s something morally off about acting as if this is okay. I know that I would not feel comfortable teaching in person at Florida State, say, even though I’m fully vaccinated and not immunocompromised. My worry (what the students’ concern should be) is passing it on to vulnerable folks. I frequently visit relatives and friends who live in assisted living facilities. Did so on Saturday – a rehabilitation/nursing home facility. If I brought Covid into the building it would be very bad, vaccinations notwithstanding.
This does not mean a more competitive variant won’t come along. But for now Delta is the most competitive variant to have emerged.
The only progress we have made since 2020 is that we can walk the streets outside without a mask. Even toilet paper shelves are empty once again… as well as rice.
Imagine if we didn’t have a vaccine. 🙁
Without a vaccine, I think we’d be in Spanish Flu territory globally. So yes, I am grateful to science, to Operation Warp Speed, to pharmaceutical firms.
I sure agree.
The run on toilet paper still perplexes me. I thought that we were past that. I also heard on the news that most paper products in general will be disappearing from shelves soon as well. It seems that during this Delta surge those companies can’t keep up with the recent demand.
And what is going on with rice?? I am getting low and can’t find much anywhere. Just scraps. Same as 2020.
This past Saturday Boston College football had their home opener.
First, there are screening lines that require an ID and vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours. Then fans are given red wristbands and line up at the gates to present their tickets to get into Alumni Stadium. No masks required in the stands, or anywhere on campus if I am not mistaken.
The BC campus requires all students, faculty and staff to get vaccinated. Only medical or religious exemptions.
Vaccination rate…99.3%
I worry MUCH less about BC football games, for the reasons you cite.
It’s the packed houses in Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, etc … that concern me. No vaccination mandates, few if any checks at the gate, and in the states mentioned transmission is at all time highs (with limited testing!).
UK is considering a limited lockdown in October. This is due to the extended period of pressure on hospitals as a result of the very lengthy Delta wave plateau the UK is on. Keep in mind, the UK’s situation isn’t even remotely as bad as ours. Yet, we don’t do contingency planning of any kind. https://twitter.com/itosettiMD_MBA/status/1434950446028832780
Excerpts from article:
“Boris Johnson is also believed to be prepared to re-introduce (mandatory) mask wearing and social distancing inside public spaces as early as this month in a move designed to stem hospital admissions and prevent the UK’s fourth lockdown.
If the Government fails to reduce the level of hospitalisations – which have consistently been above 900 a day over the past two weeks – the Prime Minister will consider whether or not a set of additional Covid restrictions are required. These could range from a return to social distancing and a limit on gatherings in homes and indoor public spaces to a full, but short term closing of the economy during which all but non-essential shops will be permitted to remain open.”
Rosh Hashanah services can be crowded. Many Jews only attend synagogue during the High Holy days. I used to. I’m now as fallen a Jew as it gets, as I never attend. In any case, to keep folks safe, they’re doing rapid tests and vaccine requirements at some synagogues. This is an example to set for all indoor religious services. https://twitter.com/rosslevinemd/status/1434972824674914304
Of the 31 states that have started school at least 1000 schools have had to close because of covid. In SC a fourth grader died from covid last week. 15 staffers of Miami dads public school system have died in past 10 days. A school district in tx has to shut down an entire school district after two teachers died from covid.
To our credit….In MA we have one of the lowest number of covid cases in the country. But these are our children…no matter the state… and our teachers and staff who care for our children. Pardon me but WTF are we thinking?
The reason most often given for kids being in school is that it is better for them. Better what? To see horrific results from teachers and children they know? To wonder if this will happen to them.
My God what are we doing by forcing only one Choice on parents. Did it occur to anyone that if there is a remote option, fewer kids are in school which allows more distancing, etc
And yes this is a rant. The bottom line is one child….one teacher,,,,one staff member is one too many
Correction. To our credit….In MA we have one of the lowest number of covid cases in the country
Joshua. Any ideas as to why so many Covid cases on the Red Sox? I don’t recall hearing this from the other MLB team nor from our Revolution MLS. Even the Patriots preseason was nothing like this. The Red Sox should be well entrenched in clinching a postseason berth but instead are running on fumes. They are most fortunate that Oakland hasn’t taken full advantage for that last WC spot.
I would be curious as to the Red Sox team vaccination rate, and where they stand up against the rest of MLB. How did they let the virus get out of control?
I also find it interesting in Tom Brady’s recent comments regarding Covid-19 and the upcoming NFL season.
Frankly I wish professional sports had vaccination mandates. No vaccine, no play (or pay)for the season. Same for college sports. Oh well.
Same o the red sox. Obviously, they did it all wrong..
I continue to be sickened by this country’s response to covid. I am very disappointed in Biden’s approach, although still better than trumps.
I am extremely disgusted with the over all citizen’s response Far too many behave like this is over In short, they ain’t seem nothing yet!
I can’t figure out why people….vaccinated or not….think this is over.
JPD, I am wishing the very best for your daughter as school begins. The same also for Tom and Captain and all teachers.
Thank you Vicki. She was exposed so many times last year, but she taught with an N95 mask and a shield. She didn’t get it and that is the only reason why.
There is a mask mandate this year, but students will eat lunch in the cafeteria, MASKLESS! So there ya go! DUMB!
Last year students ate outside or in the class room socially distanced. Not so this year.
We are worried. Our daughter has some underlying issues.
Hope your daughter gets a booster JPD!
I hope so also. I can’t recall whether teachers were in the early phase of vaccines. If so, they must be coming up on the eight month time period
She is in my thoughts. All are. It amazes me that with a far higher number of children this year and a far more contagious variant that we have relaxed or eliminated so many steps for mitigation in schools.
We are a ship of fools.
Folks with a brain and who are not in denial, understand the seriousness of this. Others, I am afraid do not.
I have been hearing over the media for unvaccinated folks to STAY HOME this Labor Day weekend. There is concern about a huge surge coming, as in holidays past.
I’d suggest close to the same for vaccinated. At this point the cavalier approach of some….not all …is as dangerous.
For the Red Sox to have this bad an outbreak at this stage in the pandemic is problematic. I don’t know the vaccination status of players, but recall reading that the Sox have one of the lower vaccination rates among baseball teams.
When I see the absolutely packed stands filled with college students watching football games, I worry less about them but a lot about their teachers, the janitorial staff, the food folks, campus security, students’ parents and grandparents, etc … The South has already seen hundreds of Covid-19 deaths among teachers and staff in public and private schools during this wave. This trend will continue at the colleges. There’s something morally off about acting as if this is okay. I know that I would not feel comfortable teaching in person at Florida State, say, even though I’m fully vaccinated and not immunocompromised. My worry (what the students’ concern should be) is passing it on to vulnerable folks. I frequently visit relatives and friends who live in assisted living facilities. Did so on Saturday – a rehabilitation/nursing home facility. If I brought Covid into the building it would be very bad, vaccinations notwithstanding.
Speaking of college football, the Delta variant is the Alabama (crimson tide) of variants. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1434885492198166529
This does not mean a more competitive variant won’t come along. But for now Delta is the most competitive variant to have emerged.
The only progress we have made since 2020 is that we can walk the streets outside without a mask. Even toilet paper shelves are empty once again… as well as rice.
Imagine if we didn’t have a vaccine. 🙁
Without a vaccine, I think we’d be in Spanish Flu territory globally. So yes, I am grateful to science, to Operation Warp Speed, to pharmaceutical firms.
I sure agree.
The run on toilet paper still perplexes me. I thought that we were past that. I also heard on the news that most paper products in general will be disappearing from shelves soon as well. It seems that during this Delta surge those companies can’t keep up with the recent demand.
And what is going on with rice?? I am getting low and can’t find much anywhere. Just scraps. Same as 2020.
This past Saturday Boston College football had their home opener.
First, there are screening lines that require an ID and vaccination card or a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours. Then fans are given red wristbands and line up at the gates to present their tickets to get into Alumni Stadium. No masks required in the stands, or anywhere on campus if I am not mistaken.
The BC campus requires all students, faculty and staff to get vaccinated. Only medical or religious exemptions.
Vaccination rate…99.3%
I worry MUCH less about BC football games, for the reasons you cite.
It’s the packed houses in Arkansas, Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, etc … that concern me. No vaccination mandates, few if any checks at the gate, and in the states mentioned transmission is at all time highs (with limited testing!).
Finally, pediatric, adolescent, and young adults hospitalizations are at all-time highs. Delta is different. https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1434924349862023169
UK is considering a limited lockdown in October. This is due to the extended period of pressure on hospitals as a result of the very lengthy Delta wave plateau the UK is on. Keep in mind, the UK’s situation isn’t even remotely as bad as ours. Yet, we don’t do contingency planning of any kind. https://twitter.com/itosettiMD_MBA/status/1434950446028832780
Excerpts from article:
“Boris Johnson is also believed to be prepared to re-introduce (mandatory) mask wearing and social distancing inside public spaces as early as this month in a move designed to stem hospital admissions and prevent the UK’s fourth lockdown.
If the Government fails to reduce the level of hospitalisations – which have consistently been above 900 a day over the past two weeks – the Prime Minister will consider whether or not a set of additional Covid restrictions are required. These could range from a return to social distancing and a limit on gatherings in homes and indoor public spaces to a full, but short term closing of the economy during which all but non-essential shops will be permitted to remain open.”
Rosh Hashanah services can be crowded. Many Jews only attend synagogue during the High Holy days. I used to. I’m now as fallen a Jew as it gets, as I never attend. In any case, to keep folks safe, they’re doing rapid tests and vaccine requirements at some synagogues. This is an example to set for all indoor religious services. https://twitter.com/rosslevinemd/status/1434972824674914304
Good article on why vaccines alone – or any intervention on its own – is NOT a silver bullet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/31/pandemic-silver-bullet-delta/
Of the 31 states that have started school at least 1000 schools have had to close because of covid. In SC a fourth grader died from covid last week. 15 staffers of Miami dads public school system have died in past 10 days. A school district in tx has to shut down an entire school district after two teachers died from covid.
To our credit….In MA we have one of the lowest number of covid cases in the country. But these are our children…no matter the state… and our teachers and staff who care for our children. Pardon me but WTF are we thinking?
The reason most often given for kids being in school is that it is better for them. Better what? To see horrific results from teachers and children they know? To wonder if this will happen to them.
My God what are we doing by forcing only one Choice on parents. Did it occur to anyone that if there is a remote option, fewer kids are in school which allows more distancing, etc
And yes this is a rant. The bottom line is one child….one teacher,,,,one staff member is one too many
Correction. To our credit….In MA we have one of the lowest number of covid cases in the country
That is for children
https://twitter.com/erictopol/status/1434924349862023169?s=21
I echo your concerns, Vicki.
I also understand the rant.
Thank you. I am literally sick at heart.
C-19 for 9-7 is ready.